PESHAWAR: Five Pakistanis abducted

Published November 29, 2002

PESHAWAR, Nov 28: Five Pakistanis of Tablighi group  have been kidnapped from the Sarobi district of Afghanistan, official sources said.

An official of the district administrator’s office for Afghan refugees told Dawn here on Wednesday that one Mohammad Sarwar informed that some unidentified armed men held five members of a Tablighi group  at gunpoint near Sarobi, west of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province.

The official, quoting Mohammad Sarwar, said that the missing persons  belonged to Takhat Bhai, Mardan district and Shakh No 6, a village situated between Charsada and Mardan.—Bureau Report